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(Ascoltata 95 volte)“Funiculì, Funiculà” - by Richard Strauss (sung by Luciano Pavarotti)
The Conjurer
1475-1505
Hieronymous Bosch
A game of cups and balls is depicted here, with a man leaning forward who is too transfixed on the pearl in the conjurer’s hand that he fails to realise his money is being snatched. The child beside him is more amused by his tricked face than by the conjurer’s trick itself. The frog on the table seems to be as bewitched by the conjurer’s trick as the man is, suggesting a comparison of intelligence between the two.
Adrian Maben (director of Hieronymus Bosch: The Delights of Hell) in an interview:
Bosch moved away from postcard-perfect images by applying rough layers of paint in a style that came to be called impasto. He left the drawings under his paintings visible, and this gives his work a very modern feel. Bosch also invented genre painting: he was the first painter, not just in the Netherlands but also in the world, to actually paint secular stories.
An example is The Conjurer, an extraordinary tale of a conjurer trying to persuade the spectator that he’s pulling toads or frogs out of his mouth. Meanwhile there’s someone standing behind this spectator, who’s stealing his wallet.
Further reading: What Great Paintings Say, Volume 1 by Rose-Marie Hagen and Rainer Hagen, pg 69-73.
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